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Or just download the tones on to a laptop, take your laptop to the payphone and hook it up using either an accustic coupler or hook up your modem directly to the wires (usually found in the lit up part near the top of the booth) and play the tones through your modem.

In the movie WarGames (1983) with Matthew Broderick used a Dictaphone to record the tones from a key pad lock on the door. The general idea was also mentioned in the movie Hackers (1995) and many other movies, just how unrealistic is this?

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Giz is right, has to be a good spot so no background [censored] and a good recorder. Thesedays you got digital [censored]... So recorder is better, yet I dunno if that tone stuff does much these days... The laptop deal can work but that's a [censored] if you only need the laptop for that reason, if you got a new nice PDA sure can do that, however i'd say Redboxing is still good way to go.

if u want to phreak a payphone download a tone genarator and read the instructions and put the tones on a tape recorder and put the tape recorder on the part of the phone where you talk and play the tape. it should think your puting money in the phone. i dont no if this works

your right, we hadnt....and i doubt this kid wants to either so i should say: you wont be able to do it without cracking one open and seeing how it works, then making a red box and many other tedious steps- depends how much you want it